This week, the Trump administration cancelled all grant programs under the Violence Against Women Act. These grants fund most court protective order programs.
At the same time, Trump declares you are a domestic terrorist if you deface a Tesla.
Literally, a swasticar has more legal protection than a woman now.
fortune.com/2025/03/12/preside…
Vandalize Tesla property and the White House will prosecute you as a domestic terrorist, Trump pledges
The White House could bring the full force of the U.S. government to bear on anti–Elon Musk protesters found to have destroyed his carmaker’s assets.Christiaan Hetzner (Fortune)
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What's with mastodon search? For example, I can't search for hashtags to find people with similar interests. Frustrating
@FediTips do you have a thought on this? Anyone else know if I'm missing something?
Finding people works a bit differently on here as there deliberately isn't a central search engine (because someone nasty might take it over).
I've tried to do a guide for all the methods for discovering people to follow on here:
fedi.tips/how-do-i-find-accoun…
If your server's search isn't giving you interesting results, you might want to try methods such as Fediverse directories or Fediverse groups as these methods are both server-neutral.
How do I discover accounts to follow on Mastodon and the Fediverse? | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse
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I had a look at your server's website, and it seems they don't have advanced search features installed. The advanced search requires the admin to install an add-on (called "elasticsearch"), but this costs extra so some admins don't install it.
You might want to ask your admin about this to make sure?
Because this place doesn't spy on users or run adverts, every server admin has to cover their server's costs and usually relies on donations from users to keep going.
I don't think you have to be any particular age or skill level to use this place.
It can take a bit of time to get used to though as it is such a different structure. I hope I can help as the aim of my account is specifically to assist non-technical people 🙂
making brownies cause the open brownie mix was mocking me
well this time i had butter
Tomorrow night there will be a total #lunareclipse over North and South America! Lauren Sgro explains what that means and what to watch for. (Is it cloudy or raining where you are? We empathize.) More information: seti.org/total-eclipse-moon-co…
Total Eclipse of the Moon Coming to the Americas on the Night of March 13-14
A total eclipse of the Moon will be visible to everyone in North and South America on the night of March 13 to 14, 2025.SETI Institute
What's your go-to link for a NON TECHNICAL overview of the fediverse and why is it a good thing?
> Entirely focused on adoption be a general / non-technical user. Ideally, with scannable bullet points
Maybe something like this, maintained by @FediTips?
@mastodonmigration might also have suggestions for the sort of fediverse elevator pitch you're looking for.
Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse
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"Entirely focused on adoption be a general / non-technical user. Ideally, with scannable bullet points"
This is 100% exactly what I am trying to do with the website at fedi.tips
Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse
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Next #BikeNite is this Friday at 4pm Pacific _daylight_ time (UTC-7)!
This is our weekly call for questions. Reply with any you'd like me to add to the discussion on Friday. Please add the BikeNitePQ hashtag so it's easier to find a Proposed Question. There is room for more. I know there are some questions that have already been submitted since last week, and I will be adding them before Friday's BikeNite.
(BikeNite is a Q&A type discussion on the Fediverse.)
#BikeTooter cc @bikenite
the answer to that question is A LOT. On Epsteins plane there were plenty. On the island there were plenty. And he surrounds himself with them.
And he absolutely LOVES Andrew Tate.
Boo, hiss
It is a REALLY good idea to write an introductory post about yourself and pin it to your profile. Pinned posts appear at the top of your profile page, and they also have a special ability to federate much more widely than ordinary posts.
It's very quick and easy to do:
➡️ fedi.tips/how-do-i-pin-my-post…
Here's why it matters: there's a quirk on Mastodon where some profiles may appear blank to people on some servers, but profiles with pinned posts never look blank to anyone!
How do I pin posts on my Mastodon profile? | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse
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I wonder if instead of trying to fetch all posts and storing them on the local database, there could just be a more robust solution to interacting with posts on other instances and then when you click on a profile, it can just go to their instance or it embeds the post view from their instances like news articles embed social media posts.
Similarly when you click on a post it just embeds what the replies in the author's instance look like. Though at least the not seeing all replies issue is getting fixed by other means
Trump Is Digging Himself Into A Very Deep Hole Economically. - PolitiZoom
And he might not be able to climb out if it. The on again off again tariffs are hurting us. Prices continue to increase. The economy is wobbling more and more each day. What heSusan Fenyx (PolitiZoom)
Fox’s Laura Ingraham Advises Viewers to ‘Ignore’ Tumbling Stock Market Because Trump ...
Fox News host Laura Ingraham advised her viewers to "ignore" the tumbling stock market and "sky is falling reports in the regime press."Charlie Nash (Mediaite)
We Will Rise Again
From genre luminaries, esteemed organizers, and exciting new voices in fiction, an anthology of stories, essays, and interviews that offer transfor...www.simonandschuster.com
come on. i am good with kubernetes, docker, terraform, linux, js/ts, bash. i can be productive in php, python, and rust, and probably anything else in a few weeks. i have some cool open source work and contributions related to qubes os, onlykey security keys, stagex, and two pretty sweet homelab gitops repos
interview me!
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Hi, I’m Ellie.
I’ve jumped to Mastodon after realising (again) how toxic big tech is. Trump and Musk’s obsession with controlling social media sealed it—I miss when it was about connecting, not just a tool for the rich to twist public opinion.
I’ll post a little bit about politics (Carol Cadwalladr fan!) but also pretty pictures, my pet, and travel snaps. Looking forward to actual conversations—not just whatever the algorithm wants me to see.
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Went for a stupid walk for my stupid mental health today and
it actually helped.
So that’s nice.
Questions -
If I start a second Mastodon account, do I have the option that the muted word list transfers to the new account, or does it have to rebuilt from scratch?
- Same question, but regarding muted and blocked individual users?
You can't copy filters to other accounts.
However, you can copy mutes and blocks.
You can copy your follows, bookmarks, lists, mutes, blocks and domain blocks to any other account whenever you want using the CSV files that are usually used for transferring accounts.
If you look at the transfer guide and do steps 2 and 3, you can use these steps even if you're running two accounts at once instead of transferring accounts:
fedi.tips/transferring-your-ma…
Transferring your Mastodon account to another server | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse
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@taylorhadden hey. I would just like to say thanks to you guys for reaching out in here on the #Fediverse and offering a solution. I was able to get #Tangent to run using the solution provided in the issue tracker.
Hopefully you guys will be able to figure out the root cause of it for your future releases and such to get in more users 😉
non-australians only for now...
What's your idea of Australian Cuisine? What would you expect to see under an Australian section of a restaurant menu?
I’m still not ready to do livestreaming. I’m far too tired, and need another night to rest. So I’m cancelling my livestream tonight that was scheduled from 7-9:00pm.
BUT--I’ll be trying something new tomorrow. A daytime livestream from 1-3:00pm. More info coming!
My sincerest apologies to all. I just need one more night to recharge my batteries. I’ll be refreshed tomorrow.
#livestream #MakerTube #Twitch #artistlife #moving #selfcare
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What we know about the search for a U.S. student missing in the Dominican Republic
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/12/nx-s1-5325265/sudiksha-konanki-missing-dominican-republic?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into World News @world-news-npr
"Bring your whole self to work!"
Given that I exist in several universes, a goodly number of star systems, numerous continents, and at least two Waffle Houses, I'm not sure there's enough space at work for all of me. Or I should say, for all versions of me.
Maybe we could try time sharing this body.
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Yes it is, you can already manually pull in all the public parts of a discussion by opening the thread's "original page" and then copy-pasting the URLs of all the replies into the search box on your instance. This is very tedious so no one does this, but there's nothing to stop a client or script or instance doing it automatically.
I am not a dev but AFAIK the main holdup has been how to do this efficiently without causing strain on instances.
just read about yet another tesla crash/fire resulting the passengers being trapped with doors that wont open. A $30 'life hammer' (thats a brand name but also the generic name) solves some of this - you can bust the window and cut the seatbelt in a few seconds.
Seriously, its one of those motoring accessories you can't afford not to have. The life you hammer might be your own.
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